# Report 2021-08

## News

 - [Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life)
 - [Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government to Track Drivers’ Travel Data](https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/infrastructure-bill-travel-data-cars-privacy/)
 - [New DNS vulnerability allows 'nation-state level spying' on companies](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-dns-vulnerability-allows-nation-state-level-spying-on-companies/)
 - [Plaid settled $58 million lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing](https://finledger.com/2021/08/09/plaid-settled-58-million-lawsuit-over-alleged-consumer-data-sharing/)
 - [Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/121232/digital-id/hamburg-dpa-zoom-gdpr.html)
 - [Samsung can remotely disable their TVs worldwide using TV Block](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-can-remotely-disable-their-tvs-worldwide-using-tv-block/)
 - [How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru)
 - [Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog](https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/facebook_fined_by_south_korea/)
 - [EU agency advises against using search & browsing history for credit scores](https://therecord.media/eu-agency-advises-against-using-search-browsing-history-for-credit-scores/)
 - [Israel’s Largest Private Hospital Inadvertently Reveals Data of 50,000 Israelis ](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-data-of-50-000-israelis-leaked-from-israel-s-largest-private-hospital-1.10162393)

## Data Breaches

 - [Singaporean telco leaked personal data of over 57,000 customers](https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/12/singapore_telecom_breach_leaked_personal/)
 - [1.9 million+ records from the FBI’s terrorist watchlist available online](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/121213/data-breach/fbi-terrorist-watchlist-leak.html)
 - [T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-breach-exposed-ssn-dob-of-40m-people/)
 - [Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later](https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/dallas_data_migration_8tb_deletion/)
 - [38M Records Were Exposed Online—Including Contact-Tracing Info](https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-power-apps-data-exposed/)

## Paper/Report

 - [5G and Beyond for Contact Tracing](https://zenodo.org/record/5157830)
